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[s]So I'm upgrading my video card and was wondering if [url="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4926347&CatId=7387"]this card[/url] would be a good purchase.[/s] If not could someone recommend a good one under the $200 range?

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[quote name='Lo Tec' timestamp='1354916653' post='595375978']
Hmm, if that's the case, then an extra few bucks won't even matter. But why Radeon over nVidia? Is there a benefit that I'm overlooking?
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Not really, AMD is cheaper than nVidia, nVidia do have better performing cards but you have to pay the price for them

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[quote name='Lo Tec' timestamp='1354918798' post='595376086']
Well, I guess if my GTX 550ti works good on my two new games, Afterfall: InSanity and Singularity. Then this Radeon will be awesome.
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Ah most definitely, my brother used to have the 560Ti iirc, and I whipped him with 2 x 6850s, and this 7870 laughs at them in everything so far, drivers are almost at release (Beta 11) and each release is improving performance quite a bit

So those review benchmarks above will be completely different with the latest drivers

If you want to try before you buy, run 3DMark11 right now, and I`ll do the same and post the results to compare

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[quote name='Detection' timestamp='1354919222' post='595376096']
Ah most definitely, my brother used to have the 560Ti iirc, and I whipped him with 2 x 6850s, and this 7870 laughs at them in everything so far, drivers are almost at release (Beta 11) and each release is improving performance quite a bit

So those review benchmarks above will be completely different with the latest drivers

If you want to try before you buy, run 3DMark11 right now, and I`ll do the same and post the results to compare
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